Kosmopolitica Poliversitas Project Mas and PhDs (Berlin)

We are building a broad network of PhDs, Masters and inquisitive friends andacquaintances to meet weekly to study diverse disciplines in kitchens, living roomsand cafes across Europe. We are building an academic archipelago.

We want to invite people interested in research, teaching and collaboration to joinour project. We are looking for Mas and PhDs from all academic disciplines andfields to join a new academic initiative. We will be holding out first informationmeeting the second week of February.

The project is being run from Berlin, Germany and Aalborg, Denmark and seeks tobring academic work out of the university hall to those who cannot access theseinstitutional spaces and who also feel the need to work in more intimate settings.We want to bring specialized knowledge to the general public because we believe thathigher education has a very important political function and is essential to theconstruction of a healthy democracy.

We take as self-evident that a good education is the condition of the full enjoymentof political, social and cultural rights in a democracy and this means thatintellectual education is a critical political act. Education cannot be a luxury.Education cannot merely be a service provided in an commercial exchange. We thinkthat these are very powerful reasons to call unto academics with specializedknowledge to step forward and help to build an intellectually competent society.

So we want to build a P2P community of advanced knowledge not limited to theuniversity hall and invite everyone to participate. To do so, we are calling onspecialists to volunteer two hours of their week to teach seminars in privatesettings.

We seek to develop opportunities and foster collaboration for academics away fromacademic institutions. Our project seeks to bring academic rigor and giveopportunities in teaching, collaborating and publishing to academics andintellectuals who want to bring disciplinary knowledge out into the world.

You can find a more detailed description of the project here:Protected content